It feels weird to me that yurihime is ony 20 years old. Sure there was yuri shimai before but to think that the modern form of the magazine, a juggernaut of the yuri genre, has only existed for 20 years is still really crazy.
Well, the association of 'yuri' with lesbianism goes back to the 1970s, but 'yuri' only became established as a genre (or rather, as a demographic) under this name in the early 2000s. It took until 2003 for a publishing company to take a chance on running a magazine focused on lesbian-themed comics and light novels; that was Yuri Shimai. So in a way it's the concept of lesbian-themed comics and light novels that you can just buy in a book store in Japan, that is just about a quarter of a century old.
isn’t this just the yuri version of “super attractive perfect girl ends up with antisocial loner whose sole redeeming quality is that they are somehow the first person to ever show basic kindness to the girl”
Useless Princess
I would not call Yukari antisocial and she's not particularly resentful of popular girls, unlike Kurokawa (from Useless Princess) before her makeover. Yukari seems to be just a shy and awkward girl, who entertains stray thoughts about envying popular girls as if they were fairly tale heroines but doesn't take these musings that seriously.
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